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NCT number NCT03671434
Other study ID # 00010061
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date January 8, 2019
Est. completion date February 17, 2021

Study information

Verified date October 2021
Source Penn State University
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This work aims to evaluate an approach for improving federal legislators' use of evidence-known as the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) - which seeks to address known barriers to policymakers' use of research, including a lack of personal contact between researchers and policymakers and limited relevance of research translation efforts to current policy priorities. The RPC involves structured processes for identifying policymakers' priorities, building researchers' capacity for nonpartisan responses to current policy priorities, and facilitating ongoing and productive researcher-policymaker interactions. This implementation of the RPC will focus on child and family policies relevant to child maltreatment. This study assesses both processes for collaboration and policymakers' use of research within a randomized controlled trial (RCT) employing a mixed methods approach-including quantitative and qualitative evaluation of impact. The proposed project will be guided by three overarching questions: 1. How does the RPC impact researchers and legislative staff? 2. How does the RPC impact legislative activity? 3. How might perceptions and experiences of collaboration through the RPC relate to different forms of evidence use among researchers and policymakers? The RPC's effectiveness will be tested through experimental design (randomization) using qualitative and quantitative assessments of researcher-policymaker interactions and impact. This includes surveying congressional staff and researchers, reviewing records of policymaker's public statements and introduced legislation, and conducting qualitative interviews around researchers' and legislative staffs' experiences with researcher-policymaker collaboration prior to and during the RPC.


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Study Design


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Intervention

Behavioral:
Research-to-Policy Collaboration
The RPC is a behavioral intervention through which RPC Researchers and RPC Congressional Offices are prepared and matched for collaboration. Specifically, congressional offices are asked to identify opportunities for researcher engagement in policy efforts, researchers with expertise related to policy opportunities are identified and prepared to collaborate with congressional offices, researchers and congressional staff are matched for ongoing collaborative partnerships, and both researchers and congressional staff receive ongoing support to facilitate research translation.
Light Touch Policy Training
Control Researchers are provided information on policy engagement via email.

Locations

Country Name City State
United Kingdom London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London
United States Child Trends Bethesda Maryland
United States Penn State University University Park Pennsylvania

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Penn State University Child Trends, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Penn State Social Science Research Insititute, William T. Grant Foundation

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (2)

Crowley M, Scott JTB, Fishbein D. Translating Prevention Research for Evidence-Based Policymaking: Results from the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Pilot. Prev Sci. 2018 Feb;19(2):260-270. doi: 10.1007/s11121-017-0833-x. — View Citation

Scott JT, Larson JC, Buckingham SL, Maton KI, Crowley DM. Bridging the research-policy divide: Pathways to engagement and skill development. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2019;89(4):434-441. doi: 10.1037/ort0000389. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in Reported Use of Evidence Congressional study participants will be asked how often they have accessed research and used research in decision-making processes in the past 3 months. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Evidence Sources Congressional study participants will be asked what sources (e.g., personal contacts, academic journals) use to obtain evidence on policy issues. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Interactions with Researchers Congressional study participants will be asked how often they have interacted with researchers in different settings in the past 3 months. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Attitudes and Readiness Regarding Evidence Use Congressional study participants will be asked how valuable research is perceived by the staff and within the congressional office as a whole, as well as perceived benefit of social science specifically. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Policy Engagement Researcher study participants will be asked how frequently they have engaged with policymakers in different activities and at different stages of the policy process. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Policy-Informed Research Researcher study participants will be asked their perceived value in engaging policymakers in the research process, the extent to which their research activities are informed or guided by policymakers' needs, and the extent to which researchers have actively engaged policymakers in the research process in the last 3 months. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Policy-Related Self-Efficacy Researcher study participants will be asked how confident and prepared they feel about engaging with policymakers. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Reported Policy Knowledge Researcher study participants will be asked the extent to which they understand policy processes and norms, and the degree to which they perceive a need for additional policy training. Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year.
Primary Change in Official Statement Research Use Legislators' public statements will be dichotomously coded to indicate any type of research use. These statement-level indicators will be aggregated by legislator. Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year following the RPC completion.
Primary Change in Research Use in Legislation Child/Family bills will be dichotomously coded to indicate any type of research use. These statement-level indicators are then aggregated by legislator. Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year during or following the RPC completion.
Primary Change in Intensive Research Use in Legislation Each section in child/family bills will be dichotomously coded to indicate any type of research use. Each bill will be scored to indicate a proportion of sections in which evidence is used out of the sum of sections in the bill. These statement-level indicators are then aggregated by legislator. Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year during or following the RPC completion.
Primary Change in Type of Use in Legislation Child/family bills will be dichotomously coded to indicate the observation of different types of research use (e.g., conceptual, instrumental). These statement-level indicators are then aggregated by legislator. Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year during or following the RPC completion.
Secondary Satisfaction with Collaboration Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked about the quality of the collaborative interactions, such as the adequacy of communication and working styles of fellow collaborators. Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation.
Secondary Perceived Value of the Partnership Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked the extent to which the partnership was valuable in relation to time investment and would be worth recommending or doing again. Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation.
Secondary Perceived Impact of the Collaboration Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked the extent to which the collaboration improved aspects of participants' work, mutual understanding, or addressed needs and common goals. Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation.
Secondary Trust and Respect Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked about their perceptions of the quality of their interactions with collaborative partners, including comfort, trust, shared commitment, and conflict management. Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation.
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